Martyrs create faith, faith does not create martyrs.

I believe in God as I believe in my friends, because I feel the breath of His affection, feel His invisible and intangible hand, drawing me, leading me, grasping me; because I possess an inner consciousness of a particular providence and of a universal mind that marks out for me the course of my own destiny.

To believe in God is to yearn for His existence and, furthermore, it is to act as if He did exist.

A lot of good arguments are spoiled by some fool who knows what he is talking about.

The only way to give finality to the world is to give it consciousness.

My work...is to shatter the faith of men here, there, and everywhere, faith in affirmation, faith in negation, and faith in abstention from faith, and this for the sake of faith in faith itself.

The chiefest sanctity of a temple is that it is a place to which men go to weep in common.